Ada Yonath Quotes
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.